Omani service provider Omantel and du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), have announced plans to link the UAE and Oman through a newly activated 275-kilometre international fibre optic submarine cable named the Oman Emirates Gateway (OEG).
The government of Burkino Faso has chosen Telecel Faso’s new subsidiary Bridge Fiber Solutions (BFS) to operate and maintain the country’s fibre optic backbone network.
Africa Data Centres and operator Orange are both making plans to use solar power for at least some of their data centre power requirements in parts of Africa.
At MWC23, we caught up with ZTE's Luo Wei to discuss the vendor's new Nubia Pad 3D, developed with technology provided by Leia, as well as its partnership with AIS in Thailand.
Data traffic is increasing year-on-year but without spotting the right trends and investing in suitable technology, operators could face broad challenges, warned leading global vendor Huawei.
At Mobile World Congress 2023, ZTE won the GLOMO Award for Best Mobile Innovation for Connected Economy. Developing Telecoms caught up with the vendor's VP and Deputy GM of RAN Products Bai Gang to find out more.
Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) gave satellite company Globalstar permission to operate a new ground station, enabling it to sell mobile satellite services throughout the southeast Asian country.
State-owned operator Guinee Telecom, formerly known as Sotelgui, will not relaunch operations until next year, dismissing reports claiming the operator will do so this year.
Argentina-based connectivity provider Servicio Satelital has partnered with neXat to provide its customers with advanced, satellite specific OSS/BBS tools via neXat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution.
The Bolivian president has announced a US$20 million investment to build a new data centre in the city of El Alto, the country’s second-largest city in Bolivia, located adjacent to La Paz in Pedro Domingo Murillo Province in the west of the country close to the Peruvian and Chilean borders.
A good financial showing in 2022 from pan-African service provider MTN Group was accompanied by stern comments from the group’s CEO Ralph Mupita about the situation it faces in South Africa.
UZ-SAT, a joint venture between Uzbektelecom, Satellin Group, and private Uzbekistani enterprises, has selected Hughes’ Jupiter System to power satellite solutions in the market.
Revenue diversification has become an increasingly urgent and strategic focus for telcos, as they have to cope with the most pressing challenges, both internally and externally.
Telekom Malaysia (TM) and Chinese vendor ZTE partnered up to build a hybrid cloud 5G core network, a move designed to deliver new technologies and applications.
We spoke to Louis Hall, founder and CEO of billing specialist Cerillion, about how the company's evergreen OSS/BSS offering helps its clients monetise services on their networks.
Developing Telecoms met recently with Huawei FinTech and Mobile Financial Services (MFS) team, to discuss the development and growth of Huawei’s MFS business. The interview started by asking them to outline how Huawei first entered the MFS market.
United Arab Emirates operator E& announced it is sending AED20 million worth of telecoms equipment to Turkey as part of efforts to aid the country in its recent natural disasters, reported Emirates News Agency.
Mobile World Congress 2023 may be done and dusted, but the agenda that emerges from the show tends to impact the industry’s focus across the following year. I’ve felt in the past that these trends have been more tangible than they were in 2023; we’re perhaps in a year of evolution rather than revolution.
Reliance Jio subsidiary Radisys acquired fixed wireless access (FWA) specialists Mimosa Networks for US$60 million from Airspan Networks, to move to accelerate Jio’s telecom network product development.
Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE), a consortium of Asian telecommunications carriers managing the ASE cable system, is working with networking systems, services, and software group Ciena to improve the design capacity and sustainability of its cable system.
Satellite technology company Hughes Network Systems has announced that Mexican telecommunications and entertainment company Stargroup has selected the Hughes JUPITER System and managed satellite broadband to extend LTE service to customers in rural communities.
The Telecommunications Operators Association of Zimbabwe (TOAZ), the industry body that represents Zimbabwe’s telecommunications companies, has petitioned the country’s parliament to change the law so that operators can charge economically sustainable tariffs.
The Cape Verdean telecommunications service provider Cabo Verde Telecom (CVTelecom) plans an IPO on the national stock exchange by the end of the year, according to Miguel Monteiro, president of the Cape Verde Stock Exchange, who revealed the plan in a recent press briefing.
Reliance Jio expanded its 5G network yet again, this time to 27 cities taking its total to 331 across India, as the operator aims to stay on pace against rivals that are also rapidly expanding their 5G network.
Smartphone shipments in Africa declined 16.2% year-on-year in Q4 2022, marking a sixth quarter of decline, as consumer and vendor confidence was cut by macroeconomic factors, according to analyst firm IDC.
Dayamitra Telekomunikasi (Mitratel) posted double-digit growth in net profits and revenue in its full-year 2022 results and forecasts further growth in 2023.
Jamaica’s newest player Rock Mobile is reportedly on track to complete deployment of its 700MHz network by the end of this month.
Consumer electronic products company itel has officially revealed what it calls its most cost-effective 4G smartphone – the A60 – as it prepares to launch the new device across Africa.
Agility Logistics Parks (ALP) has announced the launch of tailored, master-planned data centre campus sites in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Ghana, with more to come.
Bharti Airtel launched 5G in a further 125 cities bringing its total to over 265 locations across India, as it aims to cover priority locations in the next two years.
Orange signed a distribution agreement with satellite company OneWeb to enhance its connectivity in rural locations in Europe, Latin America, Africa and other global regions.
Nokia is set to provide OSS/BSS software solutions to Egypt’s New Administrative Capital city.
It seems that mobile money is a major driver of an impressive set of figures from operator MTN Uganda, the country's largest telecom company, which has a subscriber base of about 17.2 million, and is part of the pan-African MTN Group.
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